São Paulo is the largest city in Latin America. In addition to its metropolitan and peripheral regions, there are more than 22 million people. All kind of reality is in the 1.520 km2 that extends its territory. From super millionaires who own huge houses of 10/20 million euros with 10.000 m2 of built area, with helipads and Ferraris in the garage, to wooden houses with 20/30 m2, without connection to the light and water network,...

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) hold great potential for addressing issues of violence whether at the school or community level or beyond. This study of ASPnet schools in Brazil, Canada and Mozambique suggests that these schools’ focus on strengthening the mechanisms of democracy, inclusive citizenship, and conflict transformation that creates a particularly effective dialogic space for critically and collectively engaging with conflict. The study contextualizes the UNESCO ASPnet projects in relation to creating a culture of...

The International Heritage Film Festival “Heritales” took place in the city of Évora, during the 30th anniversary of its declaration of World Heritage site by UNESCO. It was developed especially for this symbolic event, during the months of its commemoration: between September and October 2016. The festival was born with the purpose of disseminating narratives of filmic, digital and graphic nature that deal with Cultural Heritage. Its objectives were to project cinema in public spaces,...

The aim of this paper is to summarize the knowledge about the different approaches to equity in publications on evaluative research in development cooperation from an intercultural lens.
The special issue of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, Vol 30, No 3 (2015): "Decolonizing International Development Evaluation" [1] consists of a set of seven original articles, and we consider five for the present synthesis on the main issues raised on the theme of equity in...

Nowadays, walking around any city is a guarantee of seeing graffiti, while the public transportation are still a good canvas for writers. It is a well-established social phenomenon and has catch the attention of ethnographers, academic artists and other scholars that have entered the worlds of graffiti writers to explain their origins, trajectories, motivations, their identity construction, their conception of the self and their role and relation with society at large. However, still there is...

This application allows the user to measure the average width of a chosen blood vessel in a retinal image. After uploading an image, the program automatically segments the blood vessels in the image, and extracts individual vessel segments (by removing junctions). The user then clicks on the segment to be analysed, and the program processes that segment via a model fitting and random forests-based approach to retrieve the average width of that vessel segment. The...

With the entry into the so-called postmodern era we see significant changes in the paradigm of visual communication in general and design in particular, promoted by new ideas and principles that emerge as, what some call, a reaction to Modernism.It is in this environment that graffiti writing arises, controversial, irreverent and creative, becoming a reference for many graphic designers who adopt its characteristics. The development of graphic editing software has facilitated not only the creation...

The dataset was acquired at Porto, one of the most iconic city of Portugal. It were obtained diverse trajectories in different type of scenarios - around of the costal zone of Matosinhos and in a highway - with a moving car. The dataset provides diverse sensor information mainly by high resolution cameras, LIDAR, GPS and IMU devices installed in the roof of a car from the INESC TEC and provides realistic insights of urban road...